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Nice that Joe Biden lived long enough....

Well, in the end Pete Felton is just as important to the team as, say, Alex Trebek, or David Hagen. It's the timing that puts the focus on him now. In terms of fame, well, he was apparently well-known in Birmingham as a street singer, or busker as they are apparently called. He also released an EP on iTunes, as many up-and-coming artists do today: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-road-less-travelled-ep/1424547565 He had an appearance on a BBC casting show, was in fact, invited to it, possibly because of his local notability. He was well-known enough that there is a music festival PeteFest in his name, and he gave his name to a street music award at the Birmingham Music awards: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=206015500641057 I think there is some local notability (fame is stretching it too far though), and his musical output is the same as 2019 DDP pick Billy Clayton. But Pete didn't tweet as often. Clayton had his very media active mother to make him further known. Felton had his wife. It would have been more elegant had the QO come through himself, not through his widow's sob story. That is indeed a little disappointing.

He seems to look a little gaunt in this morning's interview: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8989969/Bill-Turnbull-64-emotionally-urges-men-prostate-exams-amid-terminal-cancer-battle.html

Lol, too much honor, but thanks a lot, I'm celebrating with Weissbier and Marianne Rosenberg.

One of the weirder "deciding hits" we've had. Obit 9 months after death, quite possibly in relation to the "lockdown isolation" of his widow. (Obviously decisive only under normal further developments)

Jesus fucking Christ!! I guess that's a wrap!

For whatever reason, the Birmingham Mail picked up the story of Pete Felton and his lonely widow up again... https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/newlywed-alone-lockdown-after-losing-19260677 Too bad the Mirror doesn't follow... ...Anyway that last obit chance, the Birmingham Music awards, was supposed to take place on Nov 15th but has been delayed again to Dec 5th. And it's going to be completely online. Also, as the article mentions, there'll be another edition of PeteFest, a music festival in his honor, on Nov 28th...

Did we miss Cardinals Hall of Famer Larry Wilson? https://www.azcardinals.com/news/cardinals-hall-of-famer-safety-larry-wilson-dies-at-age-82 Dead at 82 and also a former DDP pick.

William Wingett, US World War II veteran and one of the last survivors of the "Band of Brothers" died last month at 98: https://eu.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2020/10/01/band-of-brothers-member-world-war-2-bill-wingett-dies/5879581002/ Picked in the DDP sometime before 2017.

Takna Jigme Zangpo, the longest-imprisoned Tibetian independence activist, died last month at 91: http://www.phayul.com/2020/10/19/44602/ DDP pick in 2015 and 2016.

Efrem Bisaga, a perfectly unremarkable polish priest, died on November 3rd: https://www.powiatsuski24.pl/wydarzenia/sucha-beskidzka/zmarl-o-czeslaw-efrem-bisaga/v6g Picked by, of course, Not Gone Yet, but Still Forgotten, in the DDP 2017.

New Zealand formerly up-and-coming opera singer Matt Hirst died this summer according to this tweet: DDP pick 2017.

Swiss shark expert Erich Ritter, DDP pick in 2017 and this year, died on August 28th: https://www.sharkproject.org/dr-erich-ritter-ist-verstorben/ List of the Lost.

DDP 2017 pick Stephen Shull, US veteran and pilot, died in Nov 1st: https://www.fox13news.com/news/cancer-cuts-life-of-service-short-for-army-veteran-sarasota-deputy-pilot-stephen-shull (I assume it's that Stephen Shull, because he had been fighting cancer since 2016.)

^^ as above, now with QO - unique hit in the DDP: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sir-roy-beldam-obituary-wpv9cm9fm

Obvious drol baiting...but what about Philipose Mar Chrysostom, 103 years old, and possibly "the longest reigning bishop in the world": https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Philipose_Mar_Chrysostom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipose_Mar_Chrysostom_Mar_Thoma

2019 DDP pick Ursula Maury, a GDR schlager singer, probably died between 2005 and 2015 in Alicante in Spain, according to a german forum poster who wrote to her twice without reply: https://www.memoryradio.de/memoryforum/viewtopic.php?t=6307

"Finbarr Returns From the Dead" receives some late points for ALS "awareness raiser" Chris Penderast, because of a Daily Mail article about him. It comes a month late and slipped through the cracks - sorry! I assume Mr. Wolfensohn will get an obit in no time, which puts us at 246 hits, i.e. 30 away from the record with about 36/37 days left. And even if we fail to break the record, with a slightly smaller number of teams, it's still impressive and a credit to the wide quality of players.

German wikipedia claims that SS Totenkopf Division Nazi Johann Rehbogen, died in November 2019. He was picked here and there last year, including in the DDP 2019 and 2020, after he was deemed unfit for trial.

That turned out to be a "false positive". However, now Nick Saban has it for real, it seems: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30386828/alabama-coach-nick-saban-tests-positive-showing-covid-19-symptoms

31 - I don't know who the other person is.

Hah... the curse of too many choices. Congratulations!

RIP... quite the character. And dare I say.... biggest death of the year? I had a long-standing prediction Pelé wouldn't make 80. Well, he lives, but Diego died on our watch, so to say. With some people, you look at their ups and downs of life, you just know it's not going to end well, though I guess, a heart attack isn't that unusual, but damn, only 60. Too much sports for the heart, and of course, too much doping, too much cocaine.

This cabinet is somewhat unique in that Biden is pretty definitely going to be a one term president. And with all the ongoing crises, he needs to hit the ground running. So there's a lot of careerists and old names in there. Old names as in, they all already worked for Obama before. This cabinet is remarkably unspectacular, and is going to try to woo voters by sheer competence. It's going to be interesting to see (to me) if this approach works at the polls.

"Was it right to give him a Guardian obituary?" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/23/guardian-obituary-peter-sutcliffe